Hook and eye.



O. ANDERSON. HOOK AND BXB.

APPLICATION FILED rms. 24, 1902. BNEWQED DB0. ze, 1903. NO MODEL.

M'vmnnumwnnllwm- 19 PATENTED MAR. 2O, 1904.-

V ileirren @raras Yartnr Patented March 29,1904. L

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Gunter-11N annensnn, or sr. Louis, Missouni, Assieifioagff,DIEGT' ann Messe assiennnnrsro iufrnnnocinne Hoon AND yare MANU- raerunme coureur, or sr. Louis, Missouni, a consomation-or MISSURI.

HOOK AND EYE- sPEcIFicAfrIoN forming part of Letters :Patent No. 755,603, dateinarch se,'led/J..` f Appiioanon flied sammy 24,1902. Renewed December 26.1903. semi no. 186,705... (nq man.) I .l-

hook and eye in which there will be a yield-` I ing rictional resistance between the hook and l eye during the operation othooking and unhooking so as tov prevent the liability ot' accidental unhooking.

A urtherobject of my invention is to construct a hook and eye in such manner that 2O when the hook and eye are 'properly stitched to the' garment the operation of hooking and unhooking will not cut the threads.

My invention consists of the combination in a hook and eye of a hook the bill of which is composed of two members, one of said members comprising two parallel bars and the other of said members comprising a third bar interposed between the two parallel bars, one of said members being bent outwardly, so as to odset one member relative to the other and form a compressible enlargement on the bill, and an eye having restricted opening to receive said enlargement, the points of said eye which 'engage said enlargement being yielding or expansihle, all arranged so as to create a yielding frictional resistance between the hook and eye during the operation of hooking and unhooking and so as to make the eye fellow the bill of the hook and pass over the 4@V stitching, holding the hook in position.

Figure 1 is a plan of the eye attached to the garment, the garment being broken away to` economize space. Fig. 2 is a plan of the hook attached to the garment, the garment being broken away to economize space. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the eye. Fig. s is a side elevation olf the hook. Fig. 5 is asectional view of the eye. Fig. 6 isa sectional view ofthe hook. Figf is a View infelevation, showing the hook and eye interlockedand .showing-in dotted lines the operation of unlocking.`

Referring to the drawings in detail, the hook l consists of the loops Sand 9 to. receive the stitching 10, the outer back bars'lllandlQ, extending from the loopsysemicircles 13 and 14E, extending inwardly from the back bars, the front bars 15 and 16,V extending backwardl y from the semicircles' 13 and 14g-and thesemicircle 17, connecting the ends ofthe frontbars 15 and 16.

The front bars 15 andi iormone memberV of the bill of. the hook. ,y-.The central fbackbar 18 extends from one 'of the loops 8 or 9.1between the outer back bars11and12. .The

semicircle 19 extends fromrthe central back,

bar between the semicircles 13 andle, and lthe.

front bar 20 extends fromA thexsmnicircle1 19 betweenthe front bars 115 and 161,` `saidfront bar 2O forming the othernmemberof the jbill of the hook, and said member is bent to form the outwardly-projecting hump 21ers required to oiiset the outer memberrelative to the v4inner member and fornr an enlargement upon the bill of the hook.

The outer back bars 11 and 12 and the central back' bar 18 form the shank. The semicircles 13 and 1/1 and the semicircle 19 form the bend. The front bars 15 and 16 and the front bar 2O form the bill. The shank, the bend, and the bill are composed of three substantially parallel bars, two of said bars being connected at the point of the bill and the free.

end of the third bar extending into the'bill of the hook between the other two bars', said third bar having a hump extending outwardly from the bill of the' hook.

The hook as described is formed of a sinl gle piece of wire, and the bar 20 of the bill of ,the hook is at one end of the wire, so that said member swings freely between the bars 15 and 16 asl required to make the enlargement of the bill of the hook yielding or compressible.

ln forming the bill of the hook it is essential that it be composed of three bars, one of The eye comprises the loops 22 and 23 tov receive the stitching 24, the eye-loop 25 connecting the stitching-loops 22 and 23' and forming the opening to receive the bill of the hook, and the restricting-bar" 26 connecting the opposite ends of the loops 22 and 23 and forming a yielding frictional resistance to be engaged by the enlargement on the bill of the hook in hooking and unhooking. l t

When the point of the bill of the hook is inserted into the loop 25, one member of the bill, comprising the bars 15 and 16, will en gage the front portion of the loop, and the other member, comprisingv the bar carrying the hump 2l, will engage the bar 26, and the enlargement on the bill of the hook will yield.-

and the bar 26 will yield as required to create a yielding frictional resistance between the hook and eye, and the same-resistance is created in removing the hook from the eye. This frictional resistance will cause the eye to slide along the bill of the hook over the stitching, thereby protecting the stitching from being cut by the eye.' When the eve is in engagement with the hook, the bend of the hook will strike the restricting-bar 26 and hold the eye away from the stitches which` secure the hook in place. q

The essential feature of my invention is a hook having a bill composed of two members offset relative to each other, one of said memshank, a bend and a bill lsubstantially parall'el bars, -two of said bars #Fregene bers being composed of two bars', benveen which the other member yieldingly. operates as required to form a compressible enlarge ment upon the bill of the hook, and having a restricted opening, said opening being expansible in the pressure'of said enlargement.

I claim-f l. In a hook and eye, a hook comprising a composed of three being connected at the point of the bill and the free end of the third bar extending into the bill between the other two bars, said third bar having a hump extending outwardly from the bill of the hook; and a suitable eye to receive the hook, said eye having a restricted opening, the inner wall of which coacts with said hump, substantially as specified.

2. In a hook and eye, shank, a bendand a bill, composed of three substantially parallel bars, two of said bars being connected at the point of the bill and the free end of the third bar extending into the bill between the other two bars, said third bar having a hump extending from the bill of the hook outwardly; and a suitable eye to receive the hook; said eye consisting of a wire. lbent to form a pau' of stltclnng-loops, an eyea hook comprising a loop connecting the stitching-loops and forming an opening to receive the bill of the hook, and a restricting-bar connecting theopposite ends of the stitching-loops and extending into the eye-loop to engage the. bill of the hook, said restricting-bar being in the same plane as the eye-loop, substantially as specilied.

. In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses. f

CHRSTLAN ANDRESEN. Witn esses ALFRED A. Elena, M. G. IRIoN. 

